Tower Hamlets deploys OneSign
Tower Hamlets has become the latest primary care trust to use Imprivata OneSign. The single sign-on solution is being rolled out to provide 600 of the trust’s staff with secure access to applications including clinical systems and NHSmail. OneSign is more conventionally used in acute trusts, but it is already being used by other PCTs […]
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Agfa starts roll out in Basque region
Agfa IMPAX 6 PACS Agfa Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed the first phase of its imaging and informatics solution to the Basque region of Spain. It has deployed the solution across seven of the 28 Osakidetza facilities run by the Basque Health Service. Agfa was selected in 2007 to install its IMPAX […]
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IT vital to pharmacy progress
Use of the NHS Care Records Service by community pharmacists will be an essential part of the reform agenda for pharmacy services, health minister Phil Hope has said. The minister told the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s annual dinner that community pharmacy and the NHS were in a great position to move forward on a number […]
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Diabetes predictor based on QResearch
A simple new score that could help to identify those at most risk of developing type 2 diabetes has been developed using the QResearch database, researchers have announced. A study published on BMJ.com reveals details of QDScore, the new diabetes risk algorithm. The researchers say this can identify people at high risk of diabetes, enabling […]
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Alder Hey goes wireless with Xirrus
One of Europe’s biggest children’s hospitals has announced that it will be completely wireless within four months. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool started deploying Xirrus’ Wi-Fi Array three weeks ago in its clinical areas. It intends to provide 100% coverage, including lobbies and outside areas, by the summer. This should allow doctors, […]
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Carestream Health innnovations in Vienna
Carestream superPACS Carestream Health has unveiled a new architecture at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna. The architecture, which will be available to order in April, will enable trusts to bring together systems from multiple vendors and multiple sites. This should enable them to streamline workflows by allowing patient information and images to be […]
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CfH terminates Fujitsu helpdesk contract
NHS Connecting for Health has terminated the service desk contract it had with Fujitsu because of performance problems. The First Line Service Support contract with Fujitsu Services Ltd was terminated last week. A CfH spokesperson said the service desk would be transferred in house and supported from the agency’s Exeter office until a permanent provider […]
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Mid Staffs death rates – poor care not poor data
A trust that tried to blame high death rates on inadequate systems for recording patient data is to be condemned for “appalling” standards by the Healthcare Commission.
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Laming – review IT for children’s services
The government must look at rolling out a single national IT system for children’s services because local IT systems are hampering progress with child protection, according to a report from Lord Laming. Lord Laming’s latest review of child protection, commissioned in the wake of the Baby P tragedy, was published last week and all its […]
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MPs demand action on health inequalities
Better data to inform resource allocation and more evaluation of government policies are needed to tackle the widening gap in health inequalities, MPs have concluded. A report on health inequalities from the House of Commons Health Committee also recommends that the Quality and Outcomes Framework that GPs work to should be subject to radical revision. […]
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